Official Corruption

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As Edward R. Murrow maintained, controversy makes for good television. That must be doubly true for the Internet. If so and that is something you find entertaining yes and informing, then you have come to the right place.
Just so if the pen 'tis mightier than the sword
how much mightier still
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Just what liberties do those that enforce the law in Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Solano and San Francisaco Counties take in order to maintain the order?
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? That's the question. This web site is the beginning of the answer. And what sort of order has been imposed upon the blacks and other minorities? Simply the due process of the law?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? As interpreted by a secretive band of WHITE SUPREMACISTS, steeped in OCCULT PRACTICES, WHO JUST HAPPEN TO CONTROL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE ABBOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES.
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The media is controlled by the police when it comes to their image. This web site is a small attempt to begin to correct that imbalance. When the Police control the dissemination of news and vital public information, such as in the cities and County of Sonoma, fascism and white supremacists have an easy go of it.
What's the difference between the Sheriff and the Police? One wears a darker uniform and one has more power to write off the murders of blacks and other minorities. That would be the Sonoma County Sheriff in his very inadvisable duel role as Coroner.
The Cotati and Rohnert Park Police, Sonoma Highway Patrol, yes they all look great and sexy on the local news show, who must play along if they want in on any future scoops. So you have the entrenched system of corruption where one hand washes the other hand. If the Cotati Police happen to get in trouble, say for creating numerous false emergencies for profit, like the one they created in Cotati in front of the Spanky's and Tradewinds bars on the night of September 29, 2017.
All they need do is to refer the matter to the Sonoma County Sheriff for an "impartial" review.

Immediately after an incriminating blog post
http://nuts4cops.webs.com/apps/blog/
Sheriff Freitas, the man who gave his deputy a blank check to murder a teenager by rubber stamping his terrible police work in gunning down an unarmed teen, suddenly developed a severe case of being afraid of being caught in the employ of orgainized crime and therefore called it quits. Deserting his community in it's hour of need. As if organized crime hasn't already lined his pockets enough, a Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted him a fat golden parechute in the form of a phony medical retirement. Why reward a quitter, what kind of message does that send? It's easy to award local heroes with other peoople's, taxpayers, your money. Who has to pay, you do. That's why Sonoma County will soon follow in the City of Stockton's footsteps. Sometimes a golden watch is all the community can really afford.
The most successful criminals partner with as many elemants of government as can be bribed (translation: ALL). Organized crime, working together with law enforcement is an unbeatable combination. By regularly fleecing the taxpayers with inflated contracts to bogus private firms like cornerstione, partnering with lawyers to wrap systemic embezzlement in a neat bow to form an ongoing perfect crime. Those "in" on the arrangement, such as Director and Smart Train Executive Farhad Mansourian, profit hansomely from inflated salaries, illegal overtime, sweethart contracts, government job appointments, raises, new vehicles, residences, and compensation far above that of their peers. Commit the crime, investigate the atrocity, pin it on a black. Repeat.
Until cops on the take come clean and finger their criminal benefactors, it remains possible to buy the influence of law and order and lord it over other private citizens. But cops on the take like Sheriff Freitas will never be true men because they know what will happen to their families should they ever fathom such a righteous act as doing the real poilice work of bringing to justice those that have bought his "favors". Yes he knows all too well because he enjoyed dishing it out but would rather avoid becoming the dishee.

Occasionally evidence will surface that temporarily shines a light on the culture that underpins police corruption in Sonoma, Napa, Marin, San Francisco and other big cities and counties in California. Not that anyone knows the true implications of these rare leads. And if they do, they can expect the untimely death of their spouse, such as that incurred by a Rohnert Park journalist when he found out about "checks flying around" in the not so friendly berg. Leaks like the sexting scandals show how easy it is for the ethical conduct of the police to disintegrate. Money is power. And even the police and fire departments will soon abandon their sacred oaths when the agents of organized crime offer them personal enrichment they could never dream of on an honest dime.
Powered by the deep pockets of organized crime, these unsavory elements of the police have over the years formed a kind of secret society. One of the perks and almost obligations of their memberships is for them to off a black. Then the Sheriff, in fulfilling his obligation to his shadowy benefactors, in his unadvisedly duel role as Coroner, can then easily sweep it under the legal carpet. Through fancy administrative tricks of the trade they talk it off and shove the investigation under the pile. This goes hand in hand with the occult practices of those pulling their strings in the ivory tower in Scottsdale, Arizona, home to more than just baseball's spring training.
Only recently have the ubiquitousness of the smart phone camera provided a glimpse of the entrenched corruption living in many California and other cities throughout the USA. It has long been known that Hitler's atrocities were inspired to a large degree by the systematic segregation of the black population in the South. Today's citizen need not smugly relegate that distinction to the distant twentieth century. Oh, not in the least. Duterte's campaign of bloodshed in the Philippines is directly attributed to America's finest.
In music there is the British Invasion, wherein the Mop Tops and other acts from England took American black music and made it their own. And so a kind of cross pollination occurred. This is what is happening in the above mentioned communities but with the criminal influence of the Nazi methods of government being once again successfully applied here in the good old US of A.
And it should come as no surprise either because America gladly imported Nazi scientific knowhow. Others found different models to emulate.
A Record of the Perfidies of Certain Elements of the Sheriff's and Police Departments of Sonoma, Napa,, Marin and San Francisco Counties
A small but powerful sector of the police and fire establishments of the above communities are well paid indeed to do the bidding of their monied benefactors. If that involves certain occult affiliations then that is a small inconvenience to earn the college tuition of their offspring from such a golden goose. Apparently Sheriff Freitas and friends didn't care about that. But a powerful and sublimely demonic sect runs the application of the resources of the above institutions. And again this is nothing new.
Police chiefs, Sheriffs and Fire Chiefs, they all need and want money. The former and above will never want for such again. But the ongoing damage to the institutions they represent is systemic and far surpasses all imagined severity of the problem of police corruption.

In October 2011, a Battalion Chief with the Novato Fire Department filed a $6,000,000 claim against the former Chief, the Deputy Chief and the Novato Fire Protection District (NFPD). In this claim, the officer alleged that hostility directed toward him in the work environment by the chief and deputy chief had escalated to an intolerable level.

The claimant further alleged that he was retaliated against, harassed, threatened with demotion and disciplined with punitive actions by the two commanding officers. The Grand Jury was told by members of the department that the command staff was in a constant state of fear and intimidation. The claim filed by the Battalion Chief against the former Fire Chief and Deputy Chief contained serious allegations about both officers.

The NFPD Board of Directors (BOD): Director Tomas Kaselionis, Director Farhad Mansourian, Director Jim Galli, Director Lj Silverman, and President Brad Beedle voted to settle this claim for $250,000 and the officer resigned from the department. The investigation into this claim cost the NFPD an additional $100,000 in legal fees.
On the face of it this might seem to have been a good deal for the NFPD BOD.

By paying out $350,000 they saved $5,650,000.00 over potentially losing the lawsuit. Basically, by paying out hush money to the Battalion Chief they confirmed that they knew and acknowledged that the disturbing charges against the former Fire Chief Marc Revere and Deputy Chief Eric Nickel were true.
The question is what additional hostility; harassment, punitive actions and threats were leveled against the claimant in order to force him to accept such a truncated settlement as $250,000 and to crawl back quietly into the woodwork when he was demanding six million?

When BOD member Farhad Mansourian was asked for comment from the press about the serious allegations against these two high-level Novato Fire Department officials, public employees whose supervision, as a member of said NFPD BODs was his responsibility, and whose grossly inflated pay was rubber stamped by himself and the other docile members of that elected body, he refused to answer the question and quickly changed the subject.
But special pleading is usually a sign that the books are being cooked.

Both the former Fire Chief and former Deputy Chief who were the subject of the damning law suit received extensive overtime pay, rubber stamped by Mansourian’s BOD, despite the fact that both positions are exempt from the requirement of overtime under Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) law, and there is no provision in District Policy, Memorandum of Understanding or other agreements that provide for the issuance of overtime to these officers.

The Chief and Deputy Chief had traditionally received Administrative Time Off (ATO) in lieu of overtime pay and were expected to respond to emergencies and attend night and weekend trainings and workshops as part of their responsibilities.
In 2011, the former chief was paid $16,364 in overtime, and the Deputy Chief received $11,7913.

A member of the Board stated that, even though he and the rest of the BOD voted unanimously for the questionable overtime payments and grossly inflated salaries, the BOD yet somehow did not know how much overtime or special pay the former Chief and former Deputy Chief were making.
When asked to comment upon the serious charges against the Fire Chief and his Deputy Fire Chief the Director would only state that, "This is the Novato Fire District, which operationally is superior." Mansourian said.

Leaving the press scratching their collective heads trying to figure out how grossly overpaying their fire department officials, fostering a workplace environment that numerous sources reported to the Grand Jury had reduced morale in the Novato fire department to an all-time low during the years the former Chief, the subject of the law suit, had run the department, could be somehow interpreted as “operationally superior”.

The Grand Jury was told by members of the department that the command staff was in a constant state of fear and intimidation.
The former Deputy Chief was the highest paid public employee in the County in 2011: $407,661. • The six highest paid firefighters in the County in 2011 were all top officers of the Novato Fire Protection District. Yet Board members still expressed surprise at how much their own top staffers were making when these salaries were published online by The Mercury News, even though they again had unanimously voted in favor of them.

In November 2013, the Grand Jury learned that a lawsuit had been filed against the Novato Fire Protection District (NFPD). Like many red-blooded Americans, they immediately seized upon any excuse to get out of jury duty. Simply because the former Fire Chief threatened to sue the NFPD, two members of the board of directors (BOD) and the interim fire chief who replaced him, alleging defamation of character, slander, and negligent misrepresentation.

The Grand Jury proved unwilling to influence the outcome of a lawsuit that never happened between the Novato Fire Chief and the NFPD, so they suspended their own investigation. That is an outrage because the party in question soon settled for a fraction of his demands. For such a weak reason as a lawsuit that never occurred, the jurors threw away the best chance the citizens of Novato will ever have to reclaim their lost tax dollars that they overpaid to their crooked fire chiefs. The former Deputy Chief was the highest paid public employee in the County in 2011: $407,661.

The Novato Grand Jury failed to follow through on their legal obligations to foster justice by bringing to trial those involved in the conspiracy to defraud the taxpayers.

It was the Grand Jury's job to bring to justice the criminals masquerading as honorable Novato Fire Chiefs who conspired with their board of directors to defraud the City of Novato by giving themselves inflated salaries.
Ultimately, in the belief that the taxpayers of Marin had a right to more volumes of information that they will never have time to look at, the Grand Jury decided to write a worthless status report --one without teeth of any kind-- that no will read. The Grand Jury report confirms that they phoned in their responsibilities without the slightest concern for justice for their city.

One can understand why of course. The jury is made up of just ordinary citizens trying to get back to their lives and can't be bothered with the disgraceful implications against their local fire officials. Just pass the buck on and turn your backs to the theft of their city's treasure. Just leave the henhouse to the wolves.

There is no next grand jury. It is always THE Grand Jury in session now or none at all. Because of their alleged fear of interfering with a legal trial, this grand jury once again kicked the can of corruption down the road. To be looked at by some non-existent future grand jury. But what was the grand jury really afraid of, threats to their loved ones, or were they simply paid off with all of the abundant Marin taxpayer dollars that the Novato Fire Protection District loves to lavish on their fire chiefs?

What does corruption look like; the problem is that corruption doesn't usually look like anything out of the norm? It appears to all the world as nothing but business as usual.

What is worse is that even when a classic case like this spews forth, such as the case of the Board of Directors of the Novato Fire Protection District , the jaundiced public turns a blind eye. Too busy it is presumed trying to earn enough to pay for all of the taxes that the NFPD routinely overpays its top fire officials.

The Voice of The Grand Jury: Crying in the Wilderness

Worse still, the Novato Grand Jury concluded that the problems that came to light during their investigation are not unique to the NFPD board by any stretch of the imagination. In a county where there are more than 30 special districts headed by boards of directors, they concluded that, in most cases, there is very little attention paid to board performance by the voters who put them into office. Nor is it any different in Sonoma and Napa County either.

As a Novato grand jury observed, no one in the community has the time or inclination to follow the goings on of the various myriad local northern California fire departments. That is why and how a vast --dare we use such a loaded word-- conspiracy has blossomed from one to other of the leaderships of those organizations.

The public has become so docile about the fire services that they are willing to swallow whatever crap fire officials hand down. A few well-placed groups live high indeed upon the hog of taxpayer dollars.

The New Aristocracy: Police and Fire Chiefs

This extends to the other public safety services also: Police, Sheriffs, and Highway Patrol. While going through the motions, very admirably in general, yet they become fat on the huge entitlements a grateful public bestows.

Yes the love and admiration of the public for the men and women who man those perilous jobs knows no bounds. But it should learn some and fast. Starting with keeping a weather eye upon their fire chiefs and police chiefs.

Their powerful unions have a large portion, far too large, of the state, county and city treasuries in a perennial headlock, sown up for them in perpetuity. The police and fireman's pensions are so generous that the rank and file, especially the police and fire chiefs, help themselves to the buffet of the taxpayer's larder at will.

Throwing money at vague studies to private organizations that split the profits among those having secretly avowed themselves to "be in" on the orgy of money sucked out of Sonoma, Marin and San Francisco's treasuries.

Al Terrell and His Advisory Committee Should Be Fired and Charged with Embezzlement for Ponderous Bogus Reports

Case in point, Terrell's intentionally longwinded and obfuscating Interim Report for the Fire Services Project. He takes thirty pages of mind numbing double talk about detailed statistics with which he proves absolutely nothing.

That the Board of Supervisors rolls over and habitually grants the unions a blank check for ridiculous overpayments may show that they "are in" as well.

Terrell was brought in from Chicago, a city not unknown for its share of organized crime, to help cement the overshoes for the hardworking taxpayer. He should be fired and replaced with an SRJC college grad for half his salary. An idealistic kid with a stake in the community he or she loves is worth a thousand corrupt Terrells.

Tail Wagging the Dog: Interim Reports Detail Nothing Demand Much

Terrell refuses to be clear in his report and insists on talking in abstract terms such as "buckets." Creative accounting is the name of the game; keep digging that money pit deeper for the taxpayer with useless studies for exorbitant fees to cronies that kickback, sweet deal for everyone, so who's to know?

The current annual total identified for these “buckets” is $7.2 million. Those are some expensive buckets. Terrell must shop at the same market as the Pentagon.

First, $1 million should be set aside annually for incentivizing collaboration as discussed above and to be allocated by the Advisory Council. Payoffs are not a cost effective way to obtain collaboration.

Second, $1 million should be set aside annually for supporting volunteer recruitment and retention efforts countywide. Do you see a pattern beginning to form here?

Finally, the Advisory Committee identified that a baseline analysis called a “Standards of Cover” should be done; this cost was estimated at $150,000, because "this information would be very helpful as the recommendations above are implemented."

As any child today knows, we are living in the information age. Information in vast quantities is free for the taking with a mere Google search. Exemplifying the concept of profligate waste, Terrell demands and gets $150,000 dollars simply because he would find the information "very helpful."

Not nearly as useful as that $150,000 dollars would have been in paying down the city and county's bad fire chief benefit debts. But that is just the tip of the iceberg for Terrell's unaccounted for unwise and unjustified spending.

But no Terrell doesn't really mean what he says when he says "finally" in his report because there's still more demands for money. Then, purchase the services of a grant writer at a cost of $30,000 to pursue a 2016 volunteer recruitment and retention Aid to Firefighters grant opportunity.

You dear taxpayer should be so lucky that every time you need "help" Terrell is there to score you some of that free largess in a rebate. Instead of blowing it on the stupidity of another study that no one reads or wants. One that will find its way into the circular file before any value comes of it.

If Terrell really wants to aid firefighters, why not just give them the $30,000 instead of some writer?

The real details of Terrell's report, which to get to he forces anyone with enough coffee on hand to read through useless history lessons and even more useless statistics. Until if they possess fortitude and a remarkable capacity for calumny, they get to the part in his phony report that purports to specify, with a lot of vague promises, what they won't get.

But also what the high price is of figuring out that the taxpayer will wind up with scant little after Terrell and his Advisory cronies are done with their spending spree. Then, they purchase a set of policies and protocols known as “Lexipol” to make those available to all agencies at a cost of approximately $100,000.

This is to continue the process of standardization of operations that is one important facilitating component for a variety of further collaborations. Which are roundly opposed by the majority of fire departments in question and so will never occur. Another wasted hundred grand. That's how they do things in Chicago.

In the future, the project’s Advisory Committee recommends that the allocations generally follow the guidelines of 50% of the available funds be allocated to the Advisory Council for the first two categories above and 50% be allocated to the third category of buckets (with the understanding that anything needed for the fourth category would be taken proportionately from the first two). Understanding, huh?

Where in this whole scandalous report does it even mention any effort whatsoever to save one penny out of a perennially stressed budget? The project’s Advisory Committee also recommends that the Advisory Council be charged with making further recommendations to the Board in adjusting these allocations between and within the categories as needed based upon available funds.

At the rate that Al Terrell is spending there is little likelihood of available funds remaining. No worries, there's always borrowing. Where is the oversight here, of course the Advisory Council would recommend that themselves be further empowered to line their pockets.

But there's the rub. Terrell and his Advisory committee are never done with their demands for taxpayer funds. The future obviously isn't in plastics, but in looting the taxpayer.

The Advisory Committee did offer an additional allocation recommendation for the current fiscal year in order to assist with the allocation of the current $990,000 set aside from Prop 172 funds. You see dear reader, an allocation for an allocation, where does it end, just ask a resident of the City of Stockton.

Wednesday May 01, 2013: After unknowingly aiding and abetting Mr. Heffner, who by falsification of references and letters of introduction from professional firefighters such as Kelly L. Fox, President of WSCFF (800-572-5762), Michael Mullane, David Lang, President of the IAFF, William McQuillen, Mike Tobey, Executive Director of IAFF Local 112 and Lori Moore, obtained millions of dollars in new business from city governments for his ambulance firm, the same took steps to distance themselves from him, if possible.

Monday May 06, 2013: Ron Saathoff, the Director of the International Association of Fire Fighters Pension Resource Department (202-824-1569) and President of Local 145 disavows any association with Heffner’s Falck ambulance service and his falsified applications.
Thursday May 9, 2013: Frank Lima, President of IAFF Local 112-United Firefighters of Los Angeles City orders Mike Tobey, the Director of the local’s Executive Board to write a cease and desist complaint to Falck to get the scamming ambulance company to stop using Tobey as a reference in its CEO’s false letters of introduction.

BOO!: Evil Genius of Medical Transport Bilks Government of San Diego.

Feb 19, 2013 8:42am Tom Scott · San Diego, California When the City Council approved this partnership, ignoring the recommendations of the expert panel that reviewed the proposals, the first thing that went out the door was all of the compliance monitoring that would have been required of a contract with a private ambulance company. I find it interesting that a search of the city website does not find any annual performance reports normally required for a contractor.

Jan. 18, 2012: After a phony private investigative firm in close league with organized crime known as Cornerstone released a draft report of its rubber stamped findings, Ms. Singer responded with a letter and once again criticized the firm’s work as not going far enough. Specifically, she cited that the firm only examined 28 of thousands of transactions. Two of them — both for more than $20,000 — appeared to be charges related to other cities and not San Diego. Singer proposed examining 200 to 300 additional transactions, among other things, to determine the accuracy of Rural/Metro’s records. This was never done. When dealing with organized crime, it is important to notice complete about faces by any of the involved parties.

Goldsmith defended how his office handled the allegations and said the settlement was preferred because of what he called “diminishing returns” of pursuing the matter further. He said the Cornerstone report essentially found that Rural/Metro put money in the wrong account for 10 years but didn’t take any money. “It’s sort of like when somebody is negligent in driving, but there’s no injuries,” he said. That attorney Goldsmith should be so naive as to believe the report of Cornerstone, an investigative firm run by organized crime, loudly declares that either he is a complete idiot, and complete idiots are rare, or that he's been bought off.

For Mr. Goldsmith, an employee of the City of San Diego to state that "there's been no injuries", when the great City of San Diego has been duped for at least sixteen millions of dollars is an indication of the latter. That's a mighty big pot to split between misters Robert Heffner, Cornerstone, Goldsmith and their crime bosses in Arizona, where organized crime is not unheard of. Payoffs have been generously spread out between the involved parties and where not accepted, other more direct means enforced.
Regarding the payoffs, just as the accounting fraud perpetrated above was maneuvered
The Heffner led Rural/Metro Ambulance service provided inadequate explanations for other discrepancies.

October 2011: Like a rat on a sinking ship, Boo, after having already secured his expertly embezzled millions from his former company and its duped customers, the City of San Diego, turns around and initiates a complaint against that very same company, which under his stewardship he ran aground. Successfully blaming it for the very same offences which he himself orchestrated ("So long suckers!"). Scottsdale, Arizona-based Rural/Metro is accused of stealing as much as $12 million from the city through its unique public-private partnership. Additional allegations put the total at $18 million or more. Way to take responsibility for your tenure Boo!

April 2010: Heffner fired from his job for violating Rural Metro Corporation’s expense reimbursement rules. The company said it fired Heffner after an internal audit showed that he had submitted fraudulent business expense reports for years. Hefner’s voluminous calculations were difficult to refute and even more difficult to verify. But under cross-examination he admitted that he had doctored his figures. He received reimbursements totaling thousands of dollars for improvements to his home, equestrian fees, a gym membership, homeowner association fees, dental work and home entertainment equipment, among other things.
The reimbursements were submitted to Rural/Metro in Scottsdale, not to the contractually agreed upon local private/public partnership known as San Diego Medical Services. Along with Heffner’s messy departure from Rural/Metro, the former employee turned competitor in addition committed breach-of-contract. As Heffner violated Rural/Metro’s two-year noncompete clause in his employment contract by taking a job with Denmark-based Falck, an ambulance company trying to break into the U.S. market.

Robert Heffner oversaw the partnership as an executive at Rural/Metro in Scottsdale, Ariz. Allegations of financial shenanigans resulted in the dismantling of San Diego’s irregular private-public ambulance partnership created in 1997 as San Diego Medical Services Enterprise.
Rural/Metro never paid the city back for the 10-year period where bad-debt collection revenue wasn’t recorded. The city auditor issued a report claiming the ambulance company had withheld millions between 1997 and 2007. Rural/Metro had fraudulently withheld revenue.
Heffner, during his time as president of the company, kept the bad-debt collection revenue — as much as $12 million from 1997 to 2007 that should have gone into city coffers — outside of the partnership’s bank account, which he had forwarded to elements of organized crime in Arizona for laundering—disappearing like a hapless ship trying to navigate the Bermuda Triangle-- in the Cayman Islands and the city never received the money.

Secondly, City Auditor Eduardo Luna reported that Rural/Metro withdrew nearly $6 million from the partnership in excess of the expense reimbursements it was entitled to. Rural/Metro issued a news release about Heffner’s departure to explain he had been fired for cause “as a result of violations of the company’s expense-reimbursement policies.”
Conrad A. Conrad, then-acting chief executive of Rural/Metro, said in a statement:
As part of our ongoing commitment to our customers and stakeholders, it is our responsibility to take swift and appropriate action when there is a reason to believe that the disgruntled employee Mr. Heffner has not met the standards of business conduct we have established for our company.
San Diego City Attorney’s Office expressed frustration with Rural/Metro’s level of cooperation. Rural/Metro refused to provide basic information and the city has no way of knowing if the company got away with millions. Because of his improprieties and exceptionally dishonest management of the whole affair, Rural/Metro fired Heffner. Jan Goldsmith questioned whether the investigation went far enough to determine how much more money Heffner and Rural/Metro had embezzled during the 13-year partnership.

Dec. 5, 2011: In a letter, Deputy City Attorney Sanna Singer accused Rural/Metro of reneging on its promise of a full forensic accounting of the partnership by narrowing the investigative scope. “To date, Cornerstone has performed not an in-depth forensic review, but rather a ‘grand reconciliation’ of Rural/Metro’s books and records,” she wrote. “Cornerstone has performed virtually no testing of the revenue and expenses appearing on Rural/Metro’s general ledger … to ensure that Rural/Metro is telling the truth.”
DiMino, the Rural/Metro CEO, said his company spent millions during the investigation to clear its name and called the selective documents obtained by the forensic accounting of the U-T show “a cake half-baked”.

April 2010: The Rural/Metro CEO reiterated that Metro fired Heffner after an internal audit showed that he had submitted fraudulent business expense reports for years. “We let this guy go for cause. That’s public information,” DiMino said. “He’s now with a competitor ambulance company. He’s trying to take the contract any way he can. It’s completely unethical.”
Rather than provide basic information necessary to complete a conclusive report, Mr. Hefner elected to dodge and obfuscate and to this day refuses to address many aspects of how his company’s crooked service to the City of San Diego was provided. In the end San Diegans generously agreed to pick up Heffner’s tab after its outgoing Rural/Metro president’s corrupt business practices had enriched further the coffers of organized crime in Scottsdale, Arizona.

“The way Rural/Metro stepped up to the plate is unique,” Goldsmith, a former judge, said in the release. “In my 36 years in law and watching thousands of cases from the bench, I often wished that the parties would get together early and get to the bottom of the matter without years of expensive litigation, but rarely did I see that happen. I commend Rural/Metro for doing what good corporate citizens should do to resolve issues, rather than resorting to litigation.” Heffner also agreed to the settlement, dismissed his lawsuit and received $100,000 from Rural/Metro.

That hasn’t stopped him from criticizing Rural/Metro through his lawyer.
The fact that Mr. Goldsmith of the San Diego Attorney's Office feels, that in embezzling sixteen million dollars from his employers, the wronged taxpayers of San Diego, that Rural Metro, have somehow stepped up to the plate, then he's certainly not one who can cure the unfortunate Padres' woes.

When parties in the same industry with similar interests get together and divvy up sixteen million dollars of the taxpayers' money so that they can all live happily ever after and avoid their just prosecution, it may be a lot of things. It may be collusion, it may be fraud, it may be embezzling, it might be that San Diego sorely needs a new City Attorney. One who will better keep the City's own interests at heart instead of one like Mr. Goldsmith who conspires with companies to fleece the taxpayers.

Furthermore, to allow the embezzling Rural/Metro executive, Robert Boo Heffner, the one responsible for the whole sordid affair, to skate off Scot free with sixteen million dollars of the taxpayers' hard earned money, is a disgrace to the legal profession. No wonder lawyers aren't exactly universally revered, the peoples' servant having so disgracefully abandoned them. The taxpayers must now somehow live and die with the systemic gouging that are the current charges for ambulance services in San Diego.

To then add insult to the injury of San Diego, they have the Gaul to award an additional one hundred thousand dollars to the embezzling Hefner!
It's like Donald Trump promising to build a wall to keep Mexico out and then having the audacity to make them pay for it. Another not so dissimilar comparison is that of Pontius Pilate forcing the poor San Diegan to carry his own cross to his own financial crucifixion upon the cross of ambulance bills.

Wednesday May 01, 2013: After unknowingly aiding and abetting Mr. Heffner, who by falsification of references and letters of introduction from professional firefighters such as Kelly L. Fox, President of WSCFF (800-572-5762), Michael Mullane, David Lang, President of the IAFF, William McQuillen, Mike Tobey, Executive Director of IAFF Local 112 and Lori Moore, obtained millions of dollars in new business from city governments for his ambulance firm, the same took steps to distance themselves from him, if possible.

Monday May 06, 2013:Ron Saathoff, the Director of the International Association of Fire Fighters Pension Resource Department (202-824-1569) and President of Local 145 disavows any association with Heffner’s Falck ambulance service and his falsified applications.

Thursday May 9, 2013: Frank Lima, President of IAFF Local 112-United Firefighters of Los Angeles City orders Mike Tobey, the Director of the local’s Executive Board to write a cease and desist complaint to Falck to get the scamming ambulance company to stop using Tobey as a reference in its CEO’s false letters of introduction.

BOO!: Evil Genius of Medical Transport Bilks Government of San Diego

Feb 19, 2013 8:42am
Tom Scott · San Diego, California
When the City Council approved this partnership, ignoring the recommendations of the expert panel that reviewed the proposals, the first thing that went out the door was all of the compliance monitoring that would have been required of a contract with a private ambulance company. I find it interesting that a search of the city website does not find any annual performance reports normally required for a contractor.

Jan. 18, 2012: After a phony private investigative firm in close league with organized crime known as Cornerstone released a draft report of its rubber stamped findings, Ms. Singer responded with a letter and once again criticized the firm’s work as not going far enough. Specifically, she cited that the firm only examined 28 of thousands of transactions. Two of them — both for more than $20,000 — appeared to be charges related to other cities and not San Diego. Singer proposed examining 200 to 300 additional transactions, among other things, to determine the accuracy of Rural/Metro’s records. This was never done. When dealing with organized crime, it is important to notice complete about faces by any of the involved parties.

Goldsmith defended how his office handled the allegations and said the settlement was preferred because of what he called “diminishing returns” of pursuing the matter further. He said the Cornerstone report essentially found that Rural/Metro put money in the wrong account for 10 years but didn’t take any money. “It’s sort of like when somebody is negligent in driving, but there’s no injuries,” he said. That attorney Goldsmith should be so naive as to believe the report of Cornerstone, an investigative firm run by organized crime, loudly declares that either he is a complete idiot, and complete idiots are rare, or that he's been bought off.

For Mr. Goldsmith, an employee of the City of San Diego to state that "there's been no injuries", when the great City of San Diego has been duped for at least sixteen millions of dollars is an indication of the latter. That's a mighty big pot to split between misters Robert Heffner, Cornerstone, Goldsmith and their crime bosses in Arizona, where organized crime is not unheard of. Payoffs have been generously spread out between the involved parties and where not accepted, other more direct means enforced.

Regarding the payoffs, just as the accounting fraud perpertrated above was manauvered

The Heffner led Rural/Metro Ambulance service provided inadequate explanations for other discrepancies.

October 2011: Like a rat on a sinking ship, Boo, after having already secured his expertly embezzled millions from his former company and its duped customers, the City of San Diego, turns around and initiates a complaint against that very same company, which under his stewartship he ran aground. Successfully blaming it for the very offenses which he himself orchestrated. ("So long suckers!") Scottsdale, Arizona-based Rural/Metro is accused of stealing as much as $12 million from the city through its unique public-private partnership. Additional allegations put the total at $18 million or more. Way to take responsibility for your tenure Boo!

April 2010: Heffner fired from his job for violating Rural Metro Corporation’s expense reimbursement rules. The company said it fired Heffner after an internal audit showed that he had submitted fraudulent business expense reports for years. Hefner’s voluminous calculations were difficult to refute and even more difficult to verify. But under cross-examination he admitted that he had doctored his figures.
He received reimbursements totaling thousands of dollars for improvements to his home, equestrian fees, a gym membership, homeowner association fees, dental work and home entertainment equipment, among other things.

The reimbursements were submitted to Rural/Metro in Scottsdale, not to the contractually agreed upon local private/public partnership known as San Diego Medical Services.
Along with Heffner’s messy departure from Rural/Metro, the former employee turned competitor in addition committed breach-of-contract. As Heffner violated Rural/Metro’s two-year noncompete clause in his employment contract by taking a job with Denmark-based Falck, an ambulance company trying to break into the U.S. market.

2000-2010: Group President - Rural Metro Corporation, West Emergency Services Group

1999-2000: Chief Operating Officer - Rural/Metro, Texas

Rural/Metro booked bad-debt collection revenue outside the partnership’s bank account from 1997 to 2007. Robert Heffner oversaw the partnership as an executive at Rural/Metro in Scottsdale, Ariz. Allegations of financial shenanigans resulted in the dismantling of San Diego’s irregular private-public ambulance partnership created in 1997 as San Diego Medical Services Enterprise.

Rural/Metro never paid the city back for the 10-year period where bad-debt collection revenue wasn’t recorded. The city auditor issued a report claiming the ambulance company had withheld millions between 1997 and 2007. Rural/Metro had fraudulently withheld revenue.

Heffner, during his time as president of the company, kept the bad-debt collection revenue — as much as $12 million from 1997 to 2007 that should have gone into city coffers — outside of the partnership’s bank account, which he had forwarded to elements of organized crime in Arizona for laundering—disappearing like a hapless ship trying to navigate the Bermuda Triangle-- in the Cayman Islands and the city never received the money.

Secondly, City Auditor Eduardo Luna reported that Rural/Metro withdrew nearly $6 million from the partnership in excess of the expense reimbursements it was entitled to.

Rural/Metro issued a news release about Heffner’s departure to explain he had been fired for cause “as a result of violations of the company’s expense-reimbursement policies.”

Conrad A. Conrad, then-acting chief executive of Rural/Metro, said in a statement:

As part of our ongoing commitment to our customers and stakeholders, it is our responsibility to take swift and appropriate action when there is a reason to believe that the disgruntled employee Mr. Heffner has not met the standards of business conduct we have established for our company.

San Diego City Attorney’s Office expressed frustration with Rural/Metro’s level of cooperation. Rural/Metro refused to provide basic information and the city has no way of knowing if the company got away with millions. Because of his improprieties and exceptionally dishonest management of the whole affair, Rural/Metro fired Heffner. Jan Goldsmith questioned whether the investigation went far enough to determine how much more money Heffner and Rural/Metro had embezzled during the 13-year partnership.

Dec. 5, 2011: In a letter, Deputy City Attorney Sanna Singer accused Rural/Metro of reneging on its promise of a full forensic accounting of the partnership by narrowing the investigative scope. “To date, Cornerstone has performed not an in-depth forensic review, but rather a ‘grand reconciliation’ of Rural/Metro’s books and records,” she wrote. “Cornerstone has performed virtually no testing of the revenue and expenses appearing on Rural/Metro’s general ledger … to ensure that Rural/Metro is telling the truth.”

DiMino, the Rural/Metro CEO, said his company spent millions during the investigation to clear its name and called the selective documents obtained by the forensic accounting of the U-T show “a cake half-baked”. He also reiterated that Rural/Metro fired Heffner in April 2010 after an internal audit showed that he had submitted fraudulent business expense reports for years. “We let this guy go for cause. That’s public information,” DiMino said. “He’s now with a competitor ambulance company. He’s trying to take the contract any way he can. It’s completely unethical.”

Rather than provide basic information necessary to complete a conclusive report, Mr. Hefner elected to dodge and obfuscate and to this day refuses to address many aspects of how his company’s crooked service to the City of San Diego was provided.
In the end San Diegans generously agreed to pick up Heffner’s tab after its outgoing Rural/Metro president’s corrupt business practices had enriched further the coffers of organized crime in Scottsdale, Arizona.

“The way Rural/Metro stepped up to the plate is unique,” Goldsmith, a former judge, said in the release. “In my 36 years in law and watching thousands of cases from the bench, I often wished that the parties would get together early and get to the bottom of the matter without years of expensive litigation, but rarely did I see that happen. I commend Rural/Metro for doing what good corporate citizens should do to resolve issues, rather than resorting to litigation.”
Heffner also agreed to the settlement, dismissed his lawsuit and received $100,000 from Rural/Metro. That hasn’t stopped him from criticizing Rural/Metro through his lawyer.

The fact that Mr. Goldsmith of the San Diego Attorney's Office feels, that in embezzling sixteen million dollars from his employers, the wronged taxpayers of San Diego, that Rural Metro, have somehow stepped up to the plate, then he's certainly not one who can cure the unfortunate Padres' woes. When parties in the same industry with similar interests get together and divvy up sixteen million dollars of the taxpayers' money so that they can all live happily ever after and avoid their just prosecution, it may be a lot of things. It may be collusion, it may be fraud, it may be embezzling, it might be that San Diego sorely needs a new City Attorney. One who will better keep the City's own interests at heart instead of one like Mr. Goldsmith who conspires with companies to fleece the taxpayers.

Furthurmore, to allow the embezzling Rural/Metro executive, Robert Boo Heffner, the one responsible for the whole sordid affair, to skate off Scot free with sixteen million dollars of the taxpayers' hard earned money, is a disgrace to the legal profession. No wonder lawyers aren't exactly universally revered. Now that the peoples' servant has so disgracefully abadoned them. The taxpayers must now somehow live and die with the systemic gouging that are the current charges for ambulance services in San Diego. To then add insult to the injury of San Diego, they have the gaul to award an additional one hundred thousand dollars to the embezzling Hefner!

It's like Donald Trump promising to build a wall to keep Mexico out and then having the audacity to make them pay for it. Another not so disimilar comparion is that of Pontius Pilate forcing the poor San Diegan to carry his own cross to his own financial crucifixion upon the cross of ambulance bills.

An unelected county board has managed to conclude that an entrepreneur, his business and four employees are expendable. The arguments are arcane and bewildering. The bottom line is someone with an idea and the willingness to go out on a financial limb to establish a fly fishing school on his property adjacent to the airport hangs in the breeze while the County attempts to find its way through its own maze of regulations.

Final approach to runway 35, with Leland pond at left and Airport pond at right. Photo credit: Aero Pacific Consulting.

Four people at Leland Fly Fishing Ranch have been laid off and Josh Leland Frazier is watching his personal savings evaporate after the County pulled the rug out from under his business. No doubt those four lost jobs will help Sonoma County become the 390th worst place in America for job growth. When a County government decides that banning fly fisherman from wetlands will somehow make the skies safer for air travel, we all have a problem.

The flimsy reasoning and threadbare arguments that led the County Airport Land Use Commission to shutdown a viable business is a perfect illustration of how we are finding our way to the bottom of the list of job-growing communities. This travesty demonstrates why California’s runaway government is often the target of many jokes.

Cheryl Carlucci, co-owner of Sonoma Valley Airport and Vintage Aircraft, often considered to be coming from somewhat left of field stated: "Frankly, I would like you to get tied up in your underwear for public safety. Placing yourself in harms way for financial gain is a good idea, just a few drinks and driving is an ok idea too."

Mr. Frasier’s permit problems, ochestrated by Carlucci, are negatively impacting the already low public opinion of the Sonoma Valley Airport fiscally, environmentally, and socially. They would have detrimental effect on the general public.

Josh Frazier was apprised of this potential compromise of public-safety from FAA advisory circulars, Caltrans Division of Aeronautics (two letters) the USDA. No label is going to keep a spinning propeller from maiming or killing someone. Every time you take a flight you hope the pilot has a good rate of climb to avoid collision with a tall building. The airport was again faced with guests wandering onto the SVA runways, and, worse yet, employees shooting firearms willy-nilly into the traffic pattern of aircraft using Sonoma Valley Airport.

Around noon on November 25, 2016 Chris Prevost finally had quarried his prey. Instigating his own version of Black Friday, he brazenly called upon the struggling owner of an insignificant web site to demand satisfaction. Insisting upon his own version of the truth and threatening a law suit from high powered lawyers if the mild mannered reporter failed to remove a story which he found offensive. A story constituted of constitutionally protected First Amendment editorial opinion.

But how had Mr. Prevost acquired the web site author's address? He refused to say. He stated only --in a clearly threatening tone-- that he "knew someone." Having cowed the law abiding web site owner from expressing https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment" target="_blank">the right of the press or even the rights of an individual to speak freely, a job well done, Mr. Prevost took his leave.

Now that unfortunate web site owner must deal with the consequences of knowing that Mr. Prevost, and his clan of thugs are waiting to further prevent the intrepid reporter from reporting the truth as he sees it. If that's not an organized crime, then what is? Prevost and his gang of air criminals are adept at working with so called private investigators, thinly disguised hoodlums. who follow their subjects using private air craft, coordinated from spotters on the ground, to legally harass their subjects through disguised air manuevers, "coincidentally" taking place over the heads of their targets.

Prevost and his Sonoma air field are such pilots.

Offend this man at your own risk, his powerful friends will hunt you down like a dog.

A Sonoma Valley Airport owner shocked City Council with an outburst of obscenities. Her use of the crass language at a City Council meeting about having her neighbor's pond being removed mortified those in attendance. It seems that her feathers were also ruffled when one of the council members commented on rumors of the small airport being some kind of front or tax shelter.

Origins of the rumor appear to be substantiated by the fact that although the Sonoma Valley Airport's receipts are comparatively low, huge outlays have continued for years. The financing of purchases, costly repair and maintenance of the expensive and expansive fleet of aircraft remain unexplained.

It's a fleet the which one might expect to be kept by some extravagant billionaire. One unconcerned with mundane business procedures such as turning a profit. If not organized crime or an eccentric billionaire, just where are the origins then from where all of this bounty can be traced to?

Who's Calling Shots at Sonoma Valley Airport?

With so few flights going in and out of the Sonoma Valley Airport any income brought in by them is dwarfed by the ongoing cash expenses involved in acquiring, repairing and maintaining such an enterprise.

Another factor contributing to all of the rumors about the finances of the Sonoma Valley Airport is the three different companies that are basically the same one interchangeable entity. Though being the owner of the facility, she frequently poses as an employee to avoid any disagreeable confrontations.

But the question remains, who then is shelling out the funds in Schelville? Investigators may have their suspicions confirmed should they examine Sonoma Valley Airport's books. Fitting perfectly in with sophisticated twenty-first century creative accounting techniques, it turns out that the facility is a virtual money pit.

Pilots, on retainers, sit around shooting the breeze waiting for assignments from their boss, it is said.

The complaint filed with the US
Dept of Labor OFCCP (#100180804) against Falck and its subsidiaries, Falck USA
(Washington state) and Lifestar USA (Washington, D.C) alleged several claims of
discrimination against veterans: * That one dispatcher conducted a 4 1/2 year
campaign of harassment against a veteran, because he was a veteran, including:
bullying, dangerous assignments, assignment to rigs with a histroy of
mechanical breakdowns, harassment, illegal mandatory overtime, excessive
deprivation of meal and bathroom breaks, sleep deprivation through scheduling
assignments, failure to supply lift assists for two man crews on bariatric
assignment, failure to send tow trucks while
stranded in a snow storm, and attempts to impose illegal orders that would
jeopardize patients and fellow crewmembers.

The complaint specifies names
and dates of these incidents in great detail. * That one of the subsidiary
company's managing accountants attempted to discriminate against veterans as a
class in the following way: the plan was to fire all veterans, in order to take
advantage of federal tax breaks twice over. Since there is a tax benefit for
hiring certain veterans, the plan was to take the tax benefit in that tax year,
which is legal, but then to lower costs, and cow other workers into following,
to fire all the veterans, then offer them jobs back, only at pay of $2/hour
less. If they accepted, the company would than take advantage of the tax credit
again, in the same tax year, in effect double-dipping on the tax benefit. The
net effect would be that there would be no new veterans hired, the company
would take two times the tax benefit they would be entitled to. A major part of
the plan was to strike fear into the hearts of non-veteran workers--since once
they saw that the veterans were being treated so badly, that fear would take
over and the rest would fall into line as the company would then cut
everybody's pay by $2/hour. In c company wher many people are at or close to
the poverty level already. *

Falck USA's human resources department displayed a
pre-conceived prejudice that all veterans were subject to post traumatic stress
disorder. It attempted to offer crisis counseling to the veteran lodging the
complaint simply for lodging the complaint. The clinical counseling center, to
its credit, declined to accept any such case. Nevertheless, the parent company
Falck continues an international effort to promote similar crisis counseling
efforts, constituting and institutionalizing an obvious hostile workeplace for
veterans. The complaint was withdrawn, reluctantly, as the fear factor was so
great that there was considerable risk that witnesses with actual proof would,
under fear of losing their job, recant ample testimony supporting the claims.

During
the week following the filing of the complaint, the person filing it was
extensively spied on, and harassed indirectly in numerous ways, some described
above. Some time later, the dispatcher in question was no longer reporting for
work, and hasn't been seen at work for months, but it is not widely known
whether he was fired, or suspended, or placed on medical leave. The withdrawal
of the complaint, in part, only means that the company agrees to adhere to its
own code of conduct, which pledges non-discrimination agains any protected
class. Yet blatant discrimination continues, as it now seems likely that a
corporate spy was sent to badmouth the veteran, and any partners associated
with him; efforts to get veterans into the company are proceeding very slowly,
and existing veterans are complaining that the company does not back up their
EMTs in the inevitable misunderstandings that families and facilities have in
dealing with medical transport. In the first week of the government shutdown,
the dispatch operation began stepping up more hazardous assignments to the
veteran, his car was hit probably by a company vehicle in the company parking
lot while he was at work, and some dispatchers became noticeably more
quarrelsome, as if trying to provoke an incident, which, unfortunately it did,
but probably will not come out in their favor--since it's almost an instant
replay of the initial incident. This much is certain: most of the executives
making decisions that create a climate of fear are still in place, and bad
decisions are still being made, in the opinion of the rank and file. The
company so far has not made a move to publicize to its workers worldwide that
there even was a complaint, much less a decision that was at least favorable to
the whistle-blower, in that the company pledged to stick to its code of
conduct, and recognized in writing that it should stick to its code of conduct.